This is how a franchise dies>Anime is shit>Main games are shit>Spinoff paid games are shit>F2P games are shit>Competitive scene is shit
As soon as I understood competitive pokemon was similar to mahjong I stopped playing. Once you see it you can't go back, and just like mahjong, smogon/VGC provides zero benefit to the human sprit and is actually harmful
>>59279599Fortunately that's not happening to Pokemon, so life goes on.
>>59279599>Anime is kino>Spinoff paid games are kinoFIFY
>>59279777You are less than 21
>>59279599>fanboys are shit
>>59279599>>59279790Psst, that almost happened nearly 30 years ago.
>>59279790I am 34. You are hyperbolic and depressed and wish the things you enjoy were as miserable as you are. Pokemon is in a perfectly fine state.
>>59279599And yet the porn is better than ever
>>59279599>>Anime is shitYes>>Main games are shitZ-A is shit, but SV is mid/good>>F2P games are shityes>>Competitive scene is shitIt has always been
>>59279733What Are you fucking chinese anonSeriously
>>59279599let's not forget>rival franchises arise that offer better quality >sales dropping>people rapidly losing interest in tertiary media
>>59279599>Anime is shitHorizons is unironically a step up from the garbage that was Journeys
>>59279599I'm having fun. How about you cry in a corner, buddy?
>>59279848>>sales droppingHahahahahahahahaha tell me, in this alternate reality where you live, are you also an ignorant faggot?
>>59279599>Spinoff paid games are shitPokopia's goodI guess Detective Pikachu 2 was a literally who nobody playedThe real problem is that they don't make them much anymore
>>59279863>joke's on you, I'm enjoying eating slop!
>>59279599>>Competitive scene is shitThe fact that you cared about this in the first place invalidates the rest of the post.
>>59279599....for once I agree with one of these doomposts
>>59279825>Z-A is shit, but SV is mid/goodLMAO
>>59279859Both are shit, the Ashime/Horizons has been shit for yeaaaars
>>59279599It's been shit for multiple generations and continues to sell better than ever. It's all fucked chief.
Does this mean I don't have to camp outside for several hours a week just to get Pokemon cards anymore and I can buy them anytime I want?
>>59279998Nope. Not only is OP trying to conjure some fantasy where Pokemon isn't the explosive megafranchise it still continues to be, but Pokemon cards are now speculator territory. The average retard considers them stocks.
>>59279599Only thing I care about are the games and they're complete and utter shit now
>>59279599I know, it sucks. It also feels like you've already read every single praise and criticism for the older games 100000 times too. Zombie franchise running off the nostalgic fumes of millennials and early zoomers
>>59279898Of competitive doesn’t matter why does game freak make the Pokémon that matter overpowered?
>>59280005>The average retard considers them stocksprobably because they've consistently proved a better ROI for new investors than the actual stock market for around a decade by this point
>>59279599The franchise died for me in gen 8.But I still love the oldgen games, especially gen 3, 4 and 5 and there are a ton of great romhacks.Also Ash retired so his journey can be over and he won't get dragged through the shit that is gen 9 and likely the future.I am still hoping for nu-Mystery Dungeon to reignite the fun of the series, but that will never, ever actually happen. Mystery Dungeon doesn't make the cash. Predatory mobile spinoffs and low cost high reward mainline games do.
>>59279800No it isn't. The porn peaked in the mid to late 2010s. Not only have designs that people latch onto gotten worse, AI slop has also become way more common. Good stuff is still being made, but it's rare because they usually either focus on dogshit girls or suffer AI same face. And I can't stress enough how unless you're a lolicon, the last attractive Pokegirl they made was Zinnia.
>>59280323I am not a big porn enthusiast so I don't know which era is the best ir worse, but you can type -ai_generated on rule 34 or e621. Nukes all AI slop. This is usually a default for me.And obviously I search the Pokémon themselves, not just the franchise, which deletes the probleon of Pokégirls too.
>>59280328Out of curiosity, what Pokemon from Gens 7 onward have you fapped to? (You can count Mega Evolutions from Z-A as new)
>>59279599>>Main games are shitZ-A had better story, Pokopia was widely praised as the best game.
>>59279859Oh please, Horizons haven't done a single thing better than Journey. It basically shove a wish fulfillment fanfic about an dumb CEO trying to destroying bonds for no reason by selling drugs openly because apparently current Pokemon world has no law enforcement so the main characters gets third legendary pokemon handed to them because they are so incompetent that they can't solve their problem without the writers bending the whole story in their favor.
